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Goodreads: Book Reviews
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Kindle, Audible, Amazon & more

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Description

Discover and share books you love on Goodreads, the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations!

Find new and interesting books by browsing personalized recommendations based on books you've read and your favorite genres. See what your friends are reading, write book reviews, and keep track of what you want to read.

Use our barcode scanner the next time you are in a bookstore. Add the book in your hands to your "to-read" shelf and browse reviews before buying.

More than 35 million members have added more than 1 billion books to their shelves. No other app combines the power and depth of the Goodreads community with an enormous catalog of books and reviews.

Features:

• Get personalized recommendations and discover new books based on your tastes. • Goodreads Choice Awards: vote for your favorite books of the year and see the winners!• Participate in the Reading Challenge!• Barcode scanner! • Keep a want-to-read list. • See book reviews and updates from your friends. • Discover new books and explore popular book lists. • Rate and review any book in our catalog of more than 12 million books. • Share notes and progress updates as you read. • Recommend books to friends. • Join online book clubs and connect with other readers. • View literary events near you.

What's New

Version History

3.9.6

May 18, 2018

- Fixed a crash that occurred when viewing some friends lists3.9.5- Search friends: You no longer have to scroll a long list to find a friend’s profile. - Miscellaneous bug fixes

3.9.5

May 14, 2018

* Search friends: You no longer have to scroll a long list to find a friend’s profile. * Miscellaneous bug fixes.

3.9.4

Mar 19, 2018

* Looking for your next book? Tap on Search to see trending books, new releases, and the latest book recommendations (and more!) from the Goodreads editorial team * Miscellaneous bug fixes

3.9.3

Feb 19, 2018

• Share shelves! You can now share your favorite shelves directly from the shelf page.• Rename or delete shelves you no longer need.• Kindle Notes & Highlights: Access all of your notes and highlights from your My Books page.• Miscellaneous bug fixes, including: comment notifications open to the latest comment in a thread, and marking a book as finished brings you to the book page to rate and write a review.

3.9.2

Dec 22, 2017

3.9.2• Miscellaneous bug fixes

3.9• New My Books: Improved design for My Books with more to come.• Discover More Books: Add books from your favorite genres, popular lists, and related books to the books on your shelves.• Add Shelves: Create new shelves to personalize your home for reading.• Rereading: Add multiple read dates to the books you love to read again and again. • iPhone X support

3.9.1

Dec 20, 2017

3.9.1• Fixed a crash that occurred on My Books

3.9• New My Books: Improved design for My Books with more to come.• Discover More Books: Add books from your favorite genres, popular lists, and related books to the books on your shelves.• Add Shelves: Create new shelves to personalize your home for reading.• Rereading: Add multiple read dates to the books you love to read again and again. • iPhone X support

3.9

Dec 18, 2017

• New My Books: Improved design for My Books with more to come.• Discover More Books: Add books from your favorite genres, popular lists, and related books to the books on your shelves.• Add Shelves: Create new shelves to personalize your home for reading.• Rereading: Add multiple read dates to the books you love to read again and again. • iPhone X support

3.8.2

Oct 30, 2017

• Browse popular genres and lists in the Search tab• Swipe right to add a book to your Want to Read list from genres, lists, and other members' shelves• Swipe left to delete group comments you posted, or to delete comments in groups you moderate• More sharing options for books and reviews• Miscellaneous fixes and improvements

3.8.1

Aug 31, 2017

• New genre and list pages! Force touch ("peek and pop") on a book to see the book info, swipe right to add to your Want to Read list, and favorite a genre directly from a genre page• See the Kindle Notes & Highlights your friends have shared, liked, and commented on• Fixed a bug where review snippets weren't showing on shelves• Infinite scrolling now available on shelves• Improved Voiceover support on the newsfeed

3.8

Jul 19, 2017

• Account Settings: Edit your account settings from the app.• Improvements to the scanner to make it easier to add multiple books to a shelf at once• Fixed a bug where the updates feed wouldn't load• Fixed a bug where sharing to Facebook wouldn't work from the edit review page

3.7

3.6.3

May 4, 2017

• You can now search Goodreads users by name or email to add as friends!• Miscellaneous bug fixes

3.6.2

Mar 18, 2017

• The cover scanner is now available in the new user onboarding flow as well as on the Recommendations page when fewer than 20 books have been rated• UX improvements to the review page• Search caching• Miscellaneous bug fixes

3.6.1

Feb 20, 2017

• Miscellaneous bug fixes

3.6

Feb 9, 2017

• Now you can scan book covers and barcodes to quickly add a book to your Want to Read list or read reviews!• See your friends' shared Kindle Notes & Highlights in the Goodreads app (in your newsfeed, the book page, and your friends' reviews)• Members who have linked their Amazon and Goodreads accounts can edit and share their own Kindle Notes & Highlights• Members who sign in with Amazon will no longer need to enter their password if they're already logged into their Amazon app

3.5.3

Dec 14, 2016

•Updates to the Annual Reading Challenge - challenge yourself to read more in 2017!•Miscellaneous bug fixes

3.5.2

Nov 7, 2016

Miscellaneous bug fixes

3.5.1

Oct 25, 2016

Miscellaneous bug fixes

3.5

Oct 20, 2016

• Redesigned profile page allows you to customize your photo, bio and more• New profile page also allows you to browse your friends’ shelves and recent updates for book ideas

3.4.7

Sep 8, 2016

• Miscellaneous bug fixes

3.4.6

Aug 24, 2016

Fixes crash some users experienced on editions page

3.4.5

Aug 22, 2016

• Performance improvements to book pages to help them load faster• Miscellaneous bug fixes

3.4.4

Jul 25, 2016

• Miscellaneous bug fixes.

3.4.3

Jul 19, 2016

* Finding friends on Goodreads is easier than ever, just tap on the Friends menu item to find out what your friends are reading* Fixed a crash that some iOS 8 users experienced

3.4.2

Jun 2, 2016

• Miscellaneous bug fixes

May 18, 2018

Version 3.9.6

- Fixed a crash that occurred when viewing some friends lists3.9.5- Search friends: You no longer have to scroll a long list to find a friend’s profile. - Miscellaneous bug fixes

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5

102.1K Ratings

102.1K Ratings

Wonderful!

Feb 8, 2018

Klsy303

I don't have room in my house for a bookcase nor do I have enough money to buy all the books I love and display them in my house. Therefore, when I found goodreads I found the perfect way to create a digital bookcase with reviews and all! I simply adore it :)

My only wish would be a DNF category aside from the usual ones (i.e.- "Currently Reading", "To Read", "Read"). Right now I have a handful of books on my "Read" list even though I didn't finish them. I hate taking credit for reading a book when I didn't but if I take it off my list I'll forget I tried it and try to read it later.

In addition, I read many books via audiobooks and I want to update my progress under “currently reading” but I have no way of knowing what page I’m on and typing in the percentage is a pure guess. In order for this to be more accurate to where I am in the book, it might be nice to have a category that tracks what chapter or minute you’re on. If this was the case I would have a more comprehensive view of my progress throughout the read. Other than these two small tweaks I love it!

Developer Response

Feb 9, 2018

Thanks for your feedback. In this case, I'd suggest creating a DNF shelf and making it "exclusive," which will allow you to bypass the default shelves ("read", "currently-reading", and "to-read"). Books added to exclusive shelves cannot be added to other exclusive shelves (like "read"), but they can still be added to any of your non-exclusive custom shelves. Here's how to make a shelf exclusive:1. Click on My Books in the header.2. Click on "edit" next to the "Bookshelves" header on the left.3. Find the shelf you'd like to make exclusive on your list of shelves, and click on the checkbox beneath "exclusive."

As a work around to track your progress for audiobooks, simply divide your current audiobook progress in hours into the total length of the audiobook to work out your %. For example, if you're 3 hours into an 8 hour audiobook, you have made 38% progress (3/8 = 37.5%, rounded up to 38%).

Hope this helps!

Wonderful!

Feb 8, 2018

Klsy303

I don't have room in my house for a bookcase nor do I have enough money to buy all the books I love and display them in my house. Therefore, when I found goodreads I found the perfect way to create a digital bookcase with reviews and all! I simply adore it :)

My only wish would be a DNF category aside from the usual ones (i.e.- "Currently Reading", "To Read", "Read"). Right now I have a handful of books on my "Read" list even though I didn't finish them. I hate taking credit for reading a book when I didn't but if I take it off my list I'll forget I tried it and try to read it later.

In addition, I read many books via audiobooks and I want to update my progress under “currently reading” but I have no way of knowing what page I’m on and typing in the percentage is a pure guess. In order for this to be more accurate to where I am in the book, it might be nice to have a category that tracks what chapter or minute you’re on. If this was the case I would have a more comprehensive view of my progress throughout the read. Other than these two small tweaks I love it!

Developer Response

Feb 9, 2018

Thanks for your feedback. In this case, I'd suggest creating a DNF shelf and making it "exclusive," which will allow you to bypass the default shelves ("read", "currently-reading", and "to-read"). Books added to exclusive shelves cannot be added to other exclusive shelves (like "read"), but they can still be added to any of your non-exclusive custom shelves. Here's how to make a shelf exclusive:1. Click on My Books in the header.2. Click on "edit" next to the "Bookshelves" header on the left.3. Find the shelf you'd like to make exclusive on your list of shelves, and click on the checkbox beneath "exclusive."

As a work around to track your progress for audiobooks, simply divide your current audiobook progress in hours into the total length of the audiobook to work out your %. For example, if you're 3 hours into an 8 hour audiobook, you have made 38% progress (3/8 = 37.5%, rounded up to 38%).

Hope this helps!

Born To Run

Feb 22, 2018

Jjgibby

I love Bruce Springsteen. I saw him perform for almost 4 hours with one break 40 years ago. He puts his heart and soul into everything he does. This book is no exception. You root for him for 500 pages and even though you think you know where it’s going, you really don’t. He wants to get everything exactly right. He does know and he does care, and he feels the heavy weight and responsibility of being a rock and roll messiah. He also feels the weight of heavy family issues, especially with his father. The Boss never sought to be a mile wide and an inch deep. More like a mile wide and a mile deep. As his songs demonstrate, the man can paint a starkly honest panorama with heartfelt words. He does it again with his story.

I started with a four star review, because in stretches the book seemed humorless. But you don’t downgrade Faulkner for not writing like Vonnegut. Springsteen did it his way as he always does. He reveals a lot about himself, more than I expected, and takes you to another world, his world, with genius, hard work, shortcomings and mental illness all racing toward the horizon. It’s well worth a read.

Developer Response

Feb 23, 2018

Hi there, it seems like you've written a book review here. Just to let you know that this area is actually for reviewing the Goodreads app itself, not for book reviews! For future reference, you'll find instructions at the following link on how to write a book review on the iOS app: https://www.goodreads.com/help/show/459 I hope this helps!

Born To Run

Feb 22, 2018

Jjgibby

I love Bruce Springsteen. I saw him perform for almost 4 hours with one break 40 years ago. He puts his heart and soul into everything he does. This book is no exception. You root for him for 500 pages and even though you think you know where it’s going, you really don’t. He wants to get everything exactly right. He does know and he does care, and he feels the heavy weight and responsibility of being a rock and roll messiah. He also feels the weight of heavy family issues, especially with his father. The Boss never sought to be a mile wide and an inch deep. More like a mile wide and a mile deep. As his songs demonstrate, the man can paint a starkly honest panorama with heartfelt words. He does it again with his story.

I started with a four star review, because in stretches the book seemed humorless. But you don’t downgrade Faulkner for not writing like Vonnegut. Springsteen did it his way as he always does. He reveals a lot about himself, more than I expected, and takes you to another world, his world, with genius, hard work, shortcomings and mental illness all racing toward the horizon. It’s well worth a read.

Developer Response

Feb 23, 2018

Hi there, it seems like you've written a book review here. Just to let you know that this area is actually for reviewing the Goodreads app itself, not for book reviews! For future reference, you'll find instructions at the following link on how to write a book review on the iOS app: https://www.goodreads.com/help/show/459 I hope this helps!

Perfect! Just missing one thing...

Dec 7, 2017

BetterThanItSounds

I love this app! I love that you can scan books into it for easy cataloging, I love that I can use it while doing unnecessary book shopping to make sure I don’t buy what I already have. I love that I can update my progress on books in the app. It’s literally missing just one thing - the ability to enter dates on my activity for a book showing I’ve re-read it. I know I can edit when I first started and finished a book, but I can’t add more dates as I re-read books, which is all I tend to be doing lately. I know I can add these dates on the site (which, tbh it’s really difficult to get to the page I need to enter re-read dates, so that could be improved, too), but, while a majority of my books are actually physical books, I do have a lot of kindle and audio books that I consume on my phone, so when I finish them, it would be nice to be able to update my activity with a re-read date while I’ve already got my nose stuck in front of my phone. My rating is a 4 out of 5, but I will gladly give it a perfect 5 if that missing feature can be added!

Perfect! Just missing one thing...

Dec 7, 2017

BetterThanItSounds

I love this app! I love that you can scan books into it for easy cataloging, I love that I can use it while doing unnecessary book shopping to make sure I don’t buy what I already have. I love that I can update my progress on books in the app. It’s literally missing just one thing - the ability to enter dates on my activity for a book showing I’ve re-read it. I know I can edit when I first started and finished a book, but I can’t add more dates as I re-read books, which is all I tend to be doing lately. I know I can add these dates on the site (which, tbh it’s really difficult to get to the page I need to enter re-read dates, so that could be improved, too), but, while a majority of my books are actually physical books, I do have a lot of kindle and audio books that I consume on my phone, so when I finish them, it would be nice to be able to update my activity with a re-read date while I’ve already got my nose stuck in front of my phone. My rating is a 4 out of 5, but I will gladly give it a perfect 5 if that missing feature can be added!